Grade 3 - Saskatchewan Language - Lessons/Workbook Mega Bundle

This mega bundle provides everything you need to teach all the units in the Grade 3 Saskatchewan Language Curriculum.

With your purchase, you will receive lesson slides that follow the 3-Part lesson format, engaging your students from start to finish. You will also receive the workbooks, which contain fun activities and worksheets for your students to demonstrate their understanding.

Writing Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Types of text forms – when to use each one (narratives, letters/emails, persuasive, comic strips, reports, etc.)
• Experiment – writing with planning time versus writing without planning time (no brainstorming)
• Exploring our identities – writing about who we are (our likes/dislikes, strengths/weaknesses, etc.)
• Sentence beginnings – using adjectives, verbs, adverbs, conjunctions, and prepositional phrases
• Writing descriptive sentences – using adjectives, verbs, adverbs and prepositions
• Writing stamina – testing stamina and retesting writing stamina throughout the year
• Revision skills – how to fix run-on sentences and how to avoid repetition in writing
• Improving boring sentences using prepositions
• How to write a paragraph – topic sentence (hook), body, conclusion
• Formal versus informal letter writing – voice in our writing
• Purpose and audience in letter writing – effect on our voice
• Thank you letter writing
• Writing invitations with all necessary information
• Narrative writing – beginning, middle, end
• Story elements – describing characters and setting
• Story elements – writing plot twists and conflict resolutions
• Using quotations in our narratives – dialogue
• Activity – Story Swap Revision Party
• Activity – Is It Persuasive: Facts Versus Opinion
• Understanding bias in persuasive writing
• Assignment – advertising a new invention
• Writing similes and alliteration
• Writing reports – using the facts provided to organize a report
• Logical order of facts and paragraphs in a report
• How to research online – keywords
• Questioning research strategies – formulating questions to research about a variety of topics
• Report Writing – writing strong introductions and conclusions
• Types of poems – Haiku, Limerick, Cinquain, and Rhyming Poems (AABB Patterns)
• Assignment – writing a poetry children’s book
• Cursive writing – Limerick
• Examining bias in reviews
• Publishing a book review
• Comic strips – onomatopoeia and illustrating graphic texts
• Assignment - creating an online comic strip
• Biographies – cross curriculum: Chief Poundmaker and Nellie McClung (Social Studies) and da Vinci (Science)
• Transforming texts – from letter to poster, or story to article
• Rubrics for all writing assignments
• Success criteria for all writing assignments – used for student self-assessments
• Cursive writing package – all letters (upper and lowercase)
• Metacognitive activities – writing goals chart, reflection journal, what I have learned web
• Answer pages for all activities

Reading Comprehension Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What are text forms?
• What is reading comprehension?
• Before reading: comprehension strategies – activating prior knowledge and reasons for reading
• During reading: comprehension strategies – questioning, making connections, inferences, predictions, visualizing
• After reading: comprehension strategies – summarizing, making global and local inferences, visualizing
• Reading stamina progress charts
• Genres in text forms – fiction and non-fiction
• Sub-forms of genres – mystery, myths, realistic fiction, historical fiction, etc.
• What is the theme of a story?
• Describe conflicts in stories
• Letter writing – emails, formal and informal letters, writing with voice
• Narratives – use of literary devices: similes, hyperbole, and imagery
• Perspective in narratives – first-person and third-person narration
• Narratives – sequencing multiple plots in a story and explaining cause and effect
• Circular plots in story writing
• Character traits in narratives
• Comparing life experiences with those of an Indigenous character in a story
• Analyzing the identities of characters in a variety of stories
• Structure in stories – beginning, middle, end
• Descriptive language and figurative language: imagery, rhythm, rhyme, simile, alliteration
• Indigenous storytelling – learning about different symbols, languages, and values
• Cross-curricular connections – science and social studies (energy, communities, etc.)
• Using facts or opinions in persuasive writing
• Making inferences about persuasive texts
• Text features in reports – index, glossary, timelines, headings, subheadings, etc.
• Sidebars used in report writing
• Linear sequencing and cyclical sequencing in non-fiction texts
• Reports on diversity, inclusion, and accessibility
• Summarizing reports – determining the main idea and supporting details
• Use of infographics, timelines, maps, diagrams, and pictures in reports
• Literary devices used in poetry – hyperbole, imagery, and simile
• Assignment – examining poems written by Indigenous authors
• Understanding haiku, limericks, acrostic poems, cinquain poems, and rhyming poems
• Text features in comics, infographics, memes, and maps
• Text features in biographies – using a glossary and indexes to understand a biography
• Biographies – Isaac Newton, Dian Fossey, Thomas Edison, and Edith Monture: index and glossary
• Procedural writing – text forms: lists, title, graphics, and labels
• How graphics improve procedural writing
• Following instructions – drawing a wigwam and a dreamcatcher
• Metacognitive activities: reading goals, using reading strategies reflections, tracking reading times
• Answer pages for all activities

Language Conventions and Vocabulary Unit

Workbook

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Goal setting activities – writing, spelling, and reading fluency
• Complete sentences versus fragments
• Subject versus predicate
• Simple versus compound sentences
• Suffixes: -ly, -er, -or, -ar, -ist, and more
• Prefixes: re-, un-, in-, dis-, non-, mis-, mal-, sub-, super-, and more
• Picture predictions – how do illustrations help us predict what texts will be about?
• Sight word flashcards
• Word family trees
• Activity - Look-Sound-Make Sense Check
• Reading punctuation – pause, stop, raise tone, etc.
• Parts of speech – nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions
• Four types of sentences – declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, imperative
• Fun weekly word work – word search, crosswords, creating words, coding, word scrambles
• Independent and dependent clauses
• Coordinating conjunctions – FANBOYS
• Complex sentences with adverbial clauses.
• Subject-verb agreement
• Position-based tendencies – I before E
• Decoding strategies – chunking unfamiliar words, rhyming words: word families, skip and revisit
• Memorizing irregular grapheme-phonemes ough, ph, ei, and mb
• Using dictionaries to look up word meanings and thesauruses to find synonyms
• Using apostrophes for contractions
• Possessive nouns – using apostrophes for singular nouns and for plural nouns
• Uncommon plural nouns – moose/moose, and person/people
• Spelling patterns – adding –ies, -es, -ves
• Silent letters
• Reading unfamiliar words - strategies
• Using commas for direct speech
• Using commas in a list
• Homophones and homographs
• Antonyms and synonyms
• Figurative language – simile, hyperbole, and imagery
• Capital letters: titles, proper nouns, and in dialogue
• Formal and informal language – slang, social media texts, academic language
• Fluency readings for each week to reinforce word list vocabulary
• Weekly quizzes (30 different assessments)
• Answer pages for all activities

Google Lesson Slides

Grade 3 - Google Lesson Slides - Saskatchewan Language Curriculum. This resource is packed with all the lessons you need to teach the Grade 3, Saskatchewan Language Curriculum.

We have structured these lessons to follow the popular 3-Part Lesson format. By using these lessons, you will be provided with learning goals, discussion questions, relevant YouTube videos, interactive slides, exit cards, and more. Check out the variety of activities you'll receive below.

Part 1: Minds On!
- Learning Goals
- Discussion Questions

- Polls/Surveys

- Picture Prompts

- Jokes and Riddles

- Relevant Quotes

Part 2: Action!
- Interactive Activities

- Drag and Drop

- Fill in the Blanks

- Matching

- Sorting

- Polls/Surveys and Graphing

- Embedded YouTube Videos

Part 3: Consolidation

- Exit Cards

- 3-2-1 Reflections

- One Word Reflections

- Act It Out!

- Quick Draw

- One Sentence Summary

After purchasing this resource, you will be able to download copies of the Google Slides for the three different units to your Google Drive. From there, you can complete these lessons with your class, and/or assign these slides in Google Classroom.